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iyaayas01 posted:Which if we're talking endurance flights, is nothing compared to the current record holder....64 days in a Cessna 172. That airframe is actually hanging up in the baggage claim of McCarran, look it up the next time you're flying into Vegas. quote:On January 12, 1959, after refueling chores, Timm removed his clothes and stepped out onto the platform for a refreshing sponge bath. He started by brushing his teeth. Just then Cook realized that the airplane wasn’t going to clear an upcoming ridge if the platform wasn’t pulled in. Cook yelled at Timm to pull in the platform and later told of seeing his partner struggling to complete that task—buck naked, and weighing 240 pounds, with a toothbrush sticking out of one side of his mouth and toothpaste streaming out of the other. They cleared the ridge but learned to delay hygienic activities until they were over flatter terrain. Laughing so hard at the mental picture.
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Godholio posted:How the gently caress.
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For force protection it's totally worth it tho. The peeps living near silos were as good as dead regardless.
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:I don't get the complacency posts. Once you've eaten a first hit it's also a good idea to relocate, and stay not-bunched-up. aphid_licker posted:It seems weird to use a TOW to snipe two guys and then when a huge group rolls up with a vehicle to drag them away you just watch and provide commentary. But yeah sniping dismounts with a shaped charge missile is dumb as hell. Do they not own mortars? evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Aug 20, 2016 |
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Hot Karl Marx posted:https://twitter.com/CENTCOMArabic/status/776052203416977409
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LostCosmonaut posted:Not sure of the translation, but think the Saudis lost a boat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSV-2_Swift That's the hull.
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Hahahahsha this is like cops-acting-tough.jpg PPE all over place, no kevlar, tough guy sunglasses indoors, the more you look at it the better it gets.
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Gibson has a novel where the hero dies to a drone just like that (hunter with lightweight explosives and no frag sleeve to limit collateral damage). The EM battle to prevent those suckers from operating's gonna be interesting.
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Reverand maynard posted:what are the odds that the military makes sig put an external safety on the M17
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Get an AN-2-100 turboprop conversion instead. Must feel like flying a bush plane on roids
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Duke Chin posted:A loving shuttlecock I gotta say, that's a very neat looking system. It also looks surprisingly undamaged for something that supposedly took ground fire.
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Brown Moses posted:The fuzes still have their rings in place, so they aren't even armed, makes me think it wasn't up in the air in the first place. Anta posted:Assembly process:
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Hot Karl Marx posted:re: drone talk
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These are all awesome
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Burt posted:Is that actually a thing that there aren't many black guys in these unit? If so is it a deliberate thing?
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Nostalgia4Murder posted:Imagine being on a foot patrol and hearing a quad copter coming right at you.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:https://twitter.com/355FW_CC/status/888512209218752512
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Naked Bear posted:War never changes, but you'd think that after sixteen years certain folks would have realized that we can still see them in the dark. I think this should have been covered in Mujahideen 101. Funny? Sad? Both.
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Duke Chin posted:well then clearly the terrierorists need to stand on the other side of the stick.
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DoktorLoken posted:On the subject of this thread, anyone watching The Vietnam War on PBS? It's pretty brutal.
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CommieGIR posted:Seriously, people like Thompson are who every armed services member should emulate.
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Nerses IV posted:You should link it, I'd like to give it a read
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While you can't mount an actual imax rig on a drone (you need a manned fixed/rotary), you can get a red helium 8k in a drone gimbal, and it'll probably compare quite favorably.
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Mad Dragon posted:Only 30 grand? That's a lot cheaper than I was expecting.
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Fallom posted:I miss Bad Company 2
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P sure the second charge is for tracing, not propellant.
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As one is when tanks are shooting at you I guess
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You don’t and they did and then got promptly ignored when they went home.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:How do Vietnam era bomber crews sleep at night? I get doing your job to an extent, but bombing civilian infrastructure, irrigation canals, villages, etc to the tune of likely millions of innocent deaths seems to be well into the "just following orders" camp. Did any refuse to attack civilian targets?
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glynnenstein posted:Baddie dog.
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Burt posted:However they have the best food critic in Grace Dent. Every dish served with a bowl of acid, she's amazing.
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Fish and Chimps posted:One of the tiny Danish subs sank just after being refurbished for service in the fleet (they were old West German/Norwegian hand-me-downs) in 1990. It took 3 years to make it ready to sail again, but it happened.
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Hexyflexy posted:How are you getting that much computational power onto something that weighs 100 grams and doesn't bomb a bright spot reflected off the soldier that launched it half the time. aphid_licker posted:How/why does that work?
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soy posted:MIT and whatever robot dorks in highschools already have the whole self navigation thing pretty much perfected at that scale.
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Speleothing posted:The only real question is does the tiny assassin drone destroy itself or just deliver a payload and get reused. mlmp08 posted:Human-hunting murder machines developed in the US will be the first face/skin recognition tech geek invention where they make sure it can properly “work” for people of color.
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literally a hobby quad with an RPG strapped to it.
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Yeah isis was basically dropping fin-stab 40mm grenades from photography drones.
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Flying_Crab posted:On second glance of actually clicking the image it looks like he took a phone picture from a briefing and blacked out some classification markings. I hope that’s from a drone or commercial imagery.
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Godholio posted:^That's kind of a new thing, and probably not what he's talking about.
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